EU cuts grain imports by 23% this season
From the beginning of the current season to March 27, the EU countries imported 25.0 million tons of grain, which is 23% less than in the same period last season.
As in the previous season, the EU imports soft wheat, barley and corn mainly from Ukraine. In the current season, Ukraine supplied 5.1 mln tons of soft wheat, or 70% of the total imports of this crop, 9.1 mln tons of corn (67%) and 0.7 mln tons (48%) of barley. The largest supplier of durum wheat is Turkey – 700.2 thousand tons (34%).
Russia is among the main suppliers of wheat, barley, rye and sorghum to the European Union. From the beginning of the current season to March 27, the EU imported from Russia 437.1 thousand tons of durum wheat, 318.7 thousand tons of soft wheat, 273.0 thousand tons of corn, 181.5 thousand tons of rye, 59.1 thousand tons of barley and 2.3 thousand tons of sorghum.
Grain exports and imports by the EU countries from July 1 to March 27
| Commodity | Export | Import | ||
| tons | in % y/y | tons | in % y/y | |
| Soft wheat | 23 360 449 | -2% | 7 261 527 | +3% |
| Soft wheat flour (grain eqSoft wheatuivalent) | 333 830 | -5% | 178 804 | -35% |
| Durum wheat | 427 642 | -31% | 2 086 689 | +44% |
| Durum wheat flour (grain equivalent) | 140 503 | +9% | 2 479 | -18% |
| Wheat total | 24 262 424 | -3% | 9 529 499 | +8% |
| Barley | 4 214 131 | -15% | 1 540 185 | -11% |
| Malt (grain equivalent) | 2 180 240 | -11% | 29 199 | +19% |
| Corn | 3 073 505 | +52% | 13 646 439 | -38% |
| Rye | 146 585 | +13% | 189 367 | +75% |
| Oats | 76 077 | +34% | 103 290 | -27% |
| Sorghum | 3 902 | -62% | 9 758 | -58% |
| Total grain | 33 956 864 | -2% | 25 047 737 |
-23% |
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